Its ironic that the federal government is about to subsidise regional airlines to provide half price airfares to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars of our grandchildren's money, when a simpler more cost effective and safer solution would be to clean out CASA and embrace the safest regulatory suite in the world, the US FAR's.
Under FAR's it's almost half the hourly cost to operate an aircraft compared to Australia. how stupid are we?